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Onward Yankton recently hosted its first ever regional entrepreneurship conference at Mount Marty College. “Lead. Serve. Impact. Inspiring the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs” was a resounding success, according to chaperone Brady Muth and many of his students.
Muth teaches economics and entrepreneurship at Yankton High School. He is also on the Onward Yankton Education Committee, which organized the inaugural conference in October.
The event was free, thanks to a number of sponsorships and donations. It was geared toward cultivating creativity and entrepreneurship in high school and college students. A total of 450 students attended from 17 regional high schools and Mount Marty...

A development expert says small cities and towns can be catalysts for lagging rural counties
While the nation’s diverse rural areas, which cover roughly 90 percent of the U.S. and provide a home for about 60 million Americans, are often dynamic and inviting, many have recently faced economic headwinds. Huge social shifts, like aging populations, declining manufacturing activity, and the clustering of tech and service jobs in cities, have left less-dense parts of the United States struggling to keep up, contributing to a negative, pernicious, and overblown narrative that some areas are “beyond hope.”
That’s not the story of Findlay, Ohio, which offers...

North Carolina ranks on top of Forbes’ Best States for Business for the second straight year. Our 13th annual ranking measures six categories for businesses: costs, labor supply, regulatory environment, current economic climate, growth prospects and quality of life. We factor in 41 metrics from 17 sources to determine the ranks across the six main areas. The overall ranks are based on a combination of ranks in the six main categories. Below is a breakdown of each category with the best and worst performer, along with the data sources.
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